{"id":1134,"date":"2024-10-16T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:43:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:43:42","slug":"shock-of-the-new-robert-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1134","title":{"rendered":"Shock of The New &#8211; Robert Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This documentary series was pitched to me by a tutor as an excellent grounding in art history, curated by a bombastic knowledgeable Australian academic. And they were not wrong.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite it being produced in the early 80&#8217;s, Hughes voice is still relevant. Of course there are some aspects of this documentary series that haven&#8217;t aged well, but his dazzling expertise combined with his willingness to share strong opinions is refreshing and gives you something to get your teeth into intellectually.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: left\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"BLOG_video_class\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J3ne7Udaetg\" width=\"608\" youtube-src-id=\"J3ne7Udaetg\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The first episode was a perfect background for my recent written piece on Modernism. And I enjoyed his rhetoric and the colourful diffuse way he explores art history so much that I just carried on watching. It&#8217;s a strong recommendation from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This documentary series was pitched to me by a tutor as an excellent grounding in art history, curated by a bombastic knowledgeable Australian academic. And they were not wrong.&nbsp; Despite it being produced in the early 80&#8217;s, Hughes voice is still relevant. Of course there are some aspects of this documentary series that haven&#8217;t aged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}